[Alia]

I never said it did "excuse the Duke Boys" (from bad judgement). But you wrote that they EXPLOITED a woman, freely, offering a transaction. This is not exploitation. Exploitation involves some form of co-ersion. Like, as in the illegal immigrant slave trades.

The woman had AMPLE opportunities to jobs and grants.

My word, some of us even work two and three jobs WHILE going to school, etc.. Are you suggesting "discrimination" against her skin color or sex "forcing" her into the sex-trades? Sounds like Jesse Jackson is going to beat you instanter in suggesting that.

[Mad Dawg]

I never said you said it did.

She offered to do something degrading for money. They took her up on it. I think her offer is a priori indication NOT of "compelling psycho-social circumstances" or any other pinko BS, but of makng a totally lousy and tending-toward-self-destructiveness choice. If you make a totally lousy and ditto choice and I take you up on it I think that's exploitation. If you were to say,"I want to kill meself spectacularly," and I were to say,"I'll pay to watch," I think I'd be exploiting you.

My construction does not depend on her race or history. It's almost atomic, or context free or something like that. She is degrading herself as a potentially rational animal and child of God, and they as much as said,"Cool! If you want to degrade yourself, we will happily spend some time thinking of you as a chunk of flesh, as something less than fully human."